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The glaring difference....the south Vietnamese tried to fight. The Afghani’s gave up in huge numbers before any fighting. Heck, many (most?) are either sympathetic or supporters of the Taliban anyway. They were just all too happy to take the American tax dollars to pretend to care about their 7th century “country.”

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One Taliban commander in the central province of Ghazni said the government forces' collapse started as soon as U.S. forces started withdrawing "as they didn't have any ideology except fleecing the Americans."

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taliban-surge-exposes-failure-us-efforts-build-afghan-army-2021-08-15/